A PhD in English Literature and LLB from LN Mithila University, Darbhanga, and CELTA from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vijay Kumar Roy is the author of Realm of Beauty and Truth: A Collection of Poems (2016), Premanjali (2009), a collection of poems in Hindi, and editor of The Melodies of Immortality (2012), an anthology of poetry, besides editor of and a dozen academic books.He teaches English at Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has also taught at SRM University, NCR Campus, Ghaziabad, UP and two other universities. He is editor-in-chief of Ars Artium (http://www.arsartium.org/index.html), a widely indexed international research journal of humanities and social sciences published from New Delhi. He can be contacted at: drvkroy78@yahoo.com.

​ The Progeny of Fanatics

The progeny of fanaticsare busy everywhereto influence youand bring you under their clutchesto tame youand make you a puppet.They preach thatusurping others’ powers and landschanging history and geographyconverting others’ ancestral faithand spreading hatredto achieve their written goalsgive them place in heaven.The world has seenso many ultraistswho changed the mapsand notions of nationsby their ill-gotten might.Either fear of deathor love of intimacyor self- made theories of temptationhelped them achieve their goalsand leave behind their true adherentseven after centuriesto plant the same plantsto re-ruin allthat took centuries in creatingby true adherents of the Lord. In oblivionmy eyes are tiredto see the Unseeablebut His scriptures tell me the truthas you show, so shall you reaptoday or tomorrow.It’s a cycle, coming and going:generating, operating and destroying to run the universeand keep all these ongoinggoing, going and going…

Congratulations Dr.Vijay kumar for your outstanding activities in the arena of literary realm . Needless to show a candle to the Sun.you glorified not only the previous institution but also the present working place bearing a torch of unfathomable knowledge.I feel proud of you .